I'm just curious why would you shoot that many deer a year??  Either way great job and awesome shot!!

QuoteOriginally posted by Throop:
I'm just curious why would you shoot that many deer a year??  Either way great job and awesome shot!!

Mostly because it really needs to be done. That many deer per square mile is not healthy in the least. All the towns around here are looking for solutions from cull hunts using local bowhunters  to hiring snipers. The landowners who give us permission want deer shot as well and if we don't we'll lose permission. Now 98% of these deer we take are does. In the areas we have been doing this the results have been great, a healthier number of deer and more bucks on the move. All of the deer are eaten as well. I put about 10 in my freezers, give a few to friends and family and help out some less fortunate families i know. The remaining few go to HHFH. Remember this was with a compound where long shots were no problem and i would spend over 100days a season on stand. All the deer were tagged and legal. Fill a doe tag, check in the does head with the state biologist and get another tag.

I start NY with 7 tags and Ct with 6 tags, before i turn any over and in NY 2 doe tags can be signed over to me by someone else. So thats 15 tags before I turn any over.

I;m sorry i mentioned this at all. I really wanted to just focus on getting this buck with my longbow and switching not only my choice in gear but my frame of mind as well for the entire season.

I understand the questioning though and thanks for the congratulations everyone!

Nicely Done!

Nice job! Congrats!

I'm certainly glad you are having more fun with your longbow, but doubt you will keep up your normal kill tally!

I'm very happy for you either way.  Great job on the buck!

Very nice  

Great buck, great story, and great pics! Well done.

Congrats bud!  Nice shot    

Congratulations!

Congrat  

   

Congrats!

Greg i also hunt a area that is over run with deer and when i was shootin a compound there were several years i killed over 15 deer with my bow. One year when i was in college and hunted everyday i killed 27 deer with my compound. All the deer were given away and i also had a freezer full of some fine meat.

This is my first year to hunt trad and so far i have killed one nice 8 pointer and have missed 3 other deer, shot over all 3. I will never go back to a wheel bow this trad gig is just way to much fun.

Congrads on a very beautiful buck and a high five for such a great shot.

Awesome Awesome Awesome  All the way around!

That's just awesome, Greg. What a nick buck, to boot...  

Thank you everyone. This isn't my biggest buck with trad gear, but for some reason this buck made it really sink in that I AM a traditional hunter. I finally feel like I'm not just playing around with my recurves and longbows during the season and instead actually relying on them for the entire season. I feel like I am actually "one of you" now and it feels great to be amongst the greatest group of people around.

I have met so many great people through this site(you all know who you are) and am proud to call them friends. without so many of you here I wouldn't have learned half of what I know now and I wouldn't have had the encouragement to stick it out and just "hang up the wheel bow". Thank you all for having me at your campfire.

-Greg

Greg,

Glad to see you stuck with it.

Last I saw you was at FAS in Carmel with an old recurve!

Looks like there's no reason to go back to the "Dark Side".

Hope to see you again at FAS.

Tony

Super shot!  Congratulations.

You usually take 20-30 deer a year?  In NY?